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SEAL LIFE ON THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



nor from Tolstoi since July 20, 1890; so that, instead of being tlie 

 places most driven from, they are the places not driven from at all in 

 1891. 



The following table, from the official records of the Treasury Depart- 

 ment, gives all of the killings for food and for skins (quota and modus 

 vivendi) from the close of the season July 20, 1890, to the close of the 

 season August 10, 1891 : 



Date. 



1890. 



July 28 



Aug. 5 

 14 

 23 

 30 



Sept. 6 

 13 

 22 

 29 



Oct. 4 

 14 

 22 

 29 



Nov. 14 



Dec. 4 

 1891. 



May 15 

 29 



June 4 

 11 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 13 

 15 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 20 

 25 

 29 



July 8 

 13 

 15 

 21 

 27 



Aug. 3 



5 



10 



Rookery. 



Lukannon. 



Reef 



Lukannon. 

 Reef 



.do. 



Lukannon . 



....do 



...do... 



Middle Hill. 



Lukannon.. 



Middle Kill. 



...do... 



....do. 

 ....do 

 Reef... 



Reef. 



.do. 



Zapadnie 



Zapadnie and Reef. 

 Northeast Point... 



Zapadnie 



Northeast Point... 



Middle Hill 



Northeast Point... 



Reef 



Southwest Bay 



Reef 



Middle Hill 



Reef. 



.do. 



do 



do 



Lxvkannon.. 

 Middle Hill, 

 .do... 



Reef. 

 Northeast Point. 

 Lukannon 



Total. 



Seals 

 killed. 



Remarks. 



129 

 123 

 124 

 155 

 110 



110 

 109 

 109 

 114 

 95 

 134 

 255 



233 

 114 

 463 

 718 



1,112 

 428 

 430 

 232 

 866 

 842 

 186 



1,027 

 119 

 215 

 400 

 100 

 121 

 122 

 178 

 248 

 118 

 407 

 100 



10, 805 



For food. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



For food. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Quota. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Modus vivendi. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Surely this is sufficient to convince every reasonable man that instead 

 of impartially inquiring- into the causes of the decrease of the seal herd 

 and the best possible method of protection, as was originally intended, 

 the commissioners have endeavored to screen the result of the work oi 

 the pelagic sealer by making statements about drives, stampedes, and 

 epidemics on the islands which the facts do not warrant. 



In another chapter will be found quotations, bearing on this phase 

 of the case, from the argument of United States counsel before the Tri- 

 bunal of Arbitration, to which I respectfully call the most earnest atten- 

 tion. 



In order to show that the " dead-pup" problem was not a new thing 

 on the islands before the British commissioners " discovered" it in 

 1891, 1 quote from the testimony of intelligent native chiefs and sealers 

 and of many agents of the Government and of the lessees, who have had 

 many years' experience on the seal islands, and they are unanimous in 

 saying that previous to 1884 there were practically no dead pups to be 

 seen on the rookeries 5 agents who were on the islands previous to 1884 



